Homer Quotes
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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More Homer Quotes
"My brain reels," moaned Homer the man. " Reality melts away."
r. a. lafferty— "The Hole in the Corner" from Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1970)
Mr Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill— 1930 My Early Life.
It is as if Homer not only chronicled the siege of Troy, but conducted the siege as well. As if Shakespeare set his play writing aside to lead the English against the Armada.
— 1992 Tribute to Lincoln's literary and political genius. In the New York Times,18 Nov.
Though I've never read a line of Homer I believe the Greekof today is essentially unchanged.If anything he is more Greek than he ever was.
— 1941The Colossus of Maroussi, pt.1.
As learned commentators view In Homer than Homer knew.
jonathan swift— 1733 'On Poetry', l.103-4.
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible
william blake— Preface
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."
robert burton— Section 2, member 4, subsection 6.
More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.
robert x. cringely— Discussing U.S. government personal data mining at the same time its agencies are losing "hundreds of laptops" with sensitive data
— "The biggest rubes, boobs, and noobs of 2006". Notes from the Field (InfoWorld). December 15, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead,Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.
thomas heywood— Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells (1635). Compare: "Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did 'go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 6.
It was Homer who gave laws to the artist.
francis wayland— The Iliad and the Bible, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 45.
It was Homer who inspired the poet.
francis wayland— The Iliad and the Bible, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 609.
Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
— John Sheffield (Duke of Buckinghamshire)—An Essay on Poetry, line 323.
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.
jorge luis borges— "The Immortal" (1949)
Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .
françois-rené de chateaubriand— Les Natchez (1826)
Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?"
Plutarch— 48 Themistocles.
More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.
— Discussing U.S. government personal data mining at the same time its agencies are losing "hundreds of laptops" with sensitive data
— "The biggest rubes, boobs, and noobs of 2006". Notes from the Field (InfoWorld). December 15, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-15.
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."
robert burton— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Mem. 4. Subsect. 6.
I can no more believe old Homer blind, Than those who say the sun hath never shined; The age wherein he lived was dark, but he Could not want sight who taught the world to see.
— Sir John Denham, Progress of Learning, line 61
It was Homer who inspired the poet.
francis wayland— Francis Wayland, The Iliad and the Bible
I, Phœbus, song those songs that gained so much renown I, Phœbus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down.
— In Greek Anthology.
In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity.
— Longinus, in On the Sublime.
Homer, the sovereign poet.
— Dante Alighieri, in Divina Commedia.
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.
— Thomas Heywood, in The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, 1635.
As learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.
— Jonathan Swift, in On Poetry, 1733.
Oft in one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet never did I breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken.
john keats— On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (1817)
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
— Winston Churchill, in My Early Life, 1930.
[ Homer 's] Fire burns with extraordinary Heat and Vehemence ... Virgil's is a clearer and a chaster Flame ...
— Richard Blackmore, Preface to King Arthur (1697).
This Fire is discerned in Virgil, but discerned as through a glass, reflected from Homer , more shining than fierce, but every where equal and constant.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Preface to Homer's Iliad (1715).
It was Homer who gave laws to the artist.
francis wayland— Francis Wayland, The Iliad and the Bible. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 43-45
